Having a Super Bowl Party! This is a fun year, since San Jose is hosting the actual game right here in our city!
I decided to bake & make it all from scratch!! Nothing store bought this year! Plus helps me use what I already have in my cabinets.. How many of you write your list, shop to come home to look in the cabinets to find the same items you just bought? I am guilty!! Now I have a different way of thinking and saving! Rolled sugar cookie footballs
3 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 sticks of room temp butter
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
DIRECTIONS:
Mix all dry ingredients together (flour, sugar, baking powder)- set aside
Mix egg, vanilla & butter together and add flour slowly to your mix..
Once it is 1 big clump, take it out and put into a ziplock storage bag. You can do either of 2 things: refrigerate dough for 2 hours, or do as I did and put in freezer for 30 min.
I put parchment paper down first and lightly dusted flour on it, took half of the dough mixture out of fridge while leaving the other half in.
I put the dough down and added another price of wax/parchment paper on top.. Rolled with a rolling pin. I rolled and rolled, I worked most of the dough but it gets tiring so I would do half and cut my shapes and do it all over. You roll until you get to the thickness you want. I didn't have a football cookie cutter nor did I want to go out & buy one, so I had to think outside the box. I got a disposable cup and bent it and taped it to hold its sides!
Impressed with myself just a little!
Makes like 30 cookies: Bake @ 350 for 8-10 min
3 egg whites room temp
1 tsp fresh lemon juice
1# powder sugar
-again I went with what I had, I use to always have meringue powder but I guess I used it all up.
3 egg whites room temp
-beat until they get fluffy firm like and make a peak
- add powder sugar on top of the meringue, then the lemon juice
Using a paddle with your mixer, mix it slowly then after 3 min or so speed it up!
You're done!! It should look glossy and a tad liquidy. I took a spoonful out or two so I can still have some white left.
I then added my brown coloring to the big batch and all done!
I iced the cookies with a small spatula and then put the white icing in a decorating bag and piped the lines on!
I let them sit out overnight before packaging it up.
